parents do. could anyone have seen into those mean girl minds before two families pay the price? that's all for this edition of that's all for this edition of dateline i'm natalie morales, dateline, i'm natalie morales, thank you for watching. thank you for watching. >> i'm craig melvin, and i'm notably morales. >> and this is dateline. >> a doctor's wife dies after a minor fender bender. so why do or brothers believe, this was no accident? >> i pulled my brother out, and i told him, you will not believe what i just heard. >> the startling news came from their sister's friend. >> she just kept insisting, promised we'll get a full autopsy. >> the brothers kept it a secret,.

>> we wouldn't tell the parents, we wouldn't tell my sister dina. >> it was information about a family man and are they love. when they pointed guilty finger? >> there is no way we are gonna accuse him. s no way we are gonn accuse him hello and welcome to dateline. thousands of americans are killed in car accidents every year. but when a mother of two died after a minor fender bender, their loved ones were left shaking their heads and looking for answers. the more they learned, the more it seem that it wasn't the accident that needed investigating, it was her marriage. here is dennis murphy, with bitter pill. >> so ironic that rosy isa, was idling away a few hours that afternoon, when she had only a few precious minutes remaining. >> but we never know, do we.

it was february 2005, she was dashing to the movies to meet her sister deena and a matinee. >> the last minute, i was already at the movie theater and she called and said i'm on my way, i'm leaving now. >> no one knew it then, but rosie's special trip to the movies that day from her nice home in suburban cleveland, would set in motion an international manhunt. something that became an excruciating five-year ordeal, that exposed mattresses, secure bedrooms, and new identities. and, would involve the fbi, the middle east, and murder. and all the intrigue, and the lifetime of sorrow for so many, began on the streets of a perfectly pleasant moms dads, kids and dogs kind of neighborhood. gates mills, ohio. rosie, and her handsome doctor husband, he has been, or yeah as it is known to one and all.

she was a nurse, and they met while working at the same hospital. at 36, he was proud that he amount of humble roots was able to provide his family was so much. the big house, the backyard pool. money for whatever they needed. >> once upon a time. >> the kind of side in a law that rosy's parents, rock o and gigi when regard as heavy and send. >> she would send him for two jars of baby food, he'd come home with such 36. everything he did, it had to be big and lots. >> no, he was just, i used to say to him, i think god he was so good to you and everything you do, because you're so giving to people. now, rosie, her family would say, could not a care less about the cars, the house, the status. she was down to earth, and contend with wet she'd always had. not the least of it, her close italian american family.

where a sunday dinner at our parents was don't miss. and of course, the sun and moon of her life. two-year-old daughter leana, and four-year-old son armin. >> was she happy to be a mother? >> oh my god, are you kidding? she would just pinch their cheek and say, i can't believe i've got these beautiful kids, i just love them. her eyes lit up when she looked at her babies. they were her life. >> happy birthday. say happy birthday. >> sorry for missing your party. >> in fact, rosy end yaz, married almost six years, we're hoping for another child. she was taking prenatal vitamins, but she would never get to have another baby. because, rosie's ten-minute drive to the movies in our black full vote suv was going horribly. her waiting sister had no idea where -- >> i was wondering where is she, i held my phone the hold on time, waiting for entering.

>> as it turned out, for a few minutes anyway, rosie was on her cell with her friend of many years, a woman named eva. she drove on interstate two 71 for just one exit to wilson mills road. that's when, rosie's suv started veering erotically. another driver noticed. >> i saw a black car crossover center and go back into the lane and hit a car. and the car just kept going. i'm thinking to myself, what is going on here, what is this woman doing? >> the vote eventually stopped. that's when tara temps he, a medical technician, pulled over and ran to see if she could help the woman in the car. she found a person in desperate shape. >> when i got into the car, the woman was lint, and next thing you know she started mid-emitting. >> meanwhile, patrol officer david gugino, had happened by. his dash for camera recorded the accident. >> the female driver was sitting back, and she was

gasoline for error. >> rosie was rushed to the -- worried about her condition. >> i just prayed, please let our live. no matter how bad she's broken up, will take care of her. just please let her live, god. >> in the er, the doctors working frantically on rosy for almost an hour now, allowed her husband yaz, an emergency room doctor himself to observe. rosie's brother would be the want to deliver the bad news to his parents. >> he looked at me, he was crying, he went like this to me. and i just, went down. >> it was sadly over for rosy isaias, at the age of 38. the family was brought to a private room for reviewing. >> when i saw her, i thought it

looked like she was sleeping. there was not a mark on her. >> and as the stunned family began to prepare for unspeakably sad arrangements. just hours after she passed away, that friend named eva who had been on the phone with rosie right before her car crash, got a hold of dominick, rosie's brother. she repeated what was very probably rosie's last words. it was literally unbelievable wet they suggested. >> the first thing i did is i put my brother out and i said you cannot believe what i just heard. repeated the story to him, we looked at each other like, now it'll do we do? >> what eva said would nearly riff dominic and his brother morocco apart. how could they keep such a monstrous thing a secret? >> we would tell my parents, we would tell my sister diana, we wouldn't tell anybody. >> coming up. >> she just kept insisting, promised to get a full autopsy. >> when dateline continues. >> when dateline continues >> when dateline continues oughing] ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪

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their church for strength indian with the loss of their rosy. at just 4:38, snatched away far too soon, in a slow motion car accident that nobody could comprehend. their beloved daughter insisted, mother into, and wife of yeah's. >> look at mama. >> yeah has, yazeed had, been born in detroit. first generation palestinian american. after medical school he became

emergency room doctor. but one with the entrepreneurial itch. he and his brother had become wealthy in partners -- them and, back in 1999, rosie's parents felt it was a dream come true for their daughter. >> and, i just think that we got a beautiful future together. >> in the years that they were married, rosie's mom and dad saw only a solid relationship. >> when she got married, it was a fairytale. we love them and we cared about him, because there was nothing we could say we disliked. >> but now, after rosie's death, there was trouble brewing in the dispute your family. it brought dominic and his younger brother, to blows. it all started after a conversation, just after rosie's death. -- i said, rosie died. she is hysterical. she proceeded to tell me, rosie

was talking to her on her way to the movie. she said, he has had given her a calcium pill before she left the house, and she felt queasy. rosie said, i'm going to call you has to see if maybe this calcium pills making me sick. >> i'm hearing about some kind of a pill. she's being made sick by it. within an hour, she's. dead >> right. >> after the evil conversation, dominic called family counsel of just two brothers in their wives. they needed someplace quiet. so, they got into one car and drove to their churches parking lot. eva's story seemed incomprehensible. could there have been something wrong with the calcium capsule wrapped jazz had given rosy. >> we talked about, it and called rose you can. promise me you'll get a full autopsy. a toxicology report. promised me, promised me. >> dominic's wife, jean was dumbfounded.

>> how do you have this information come to you. there was no way we were going to accuse him. >> let alone, a guy that we knew is in her family, we loved. >> we trusted. >> the brothers found themselves in opposite camps, and as far as strategy. dominic, the lawyer, wanting to go slow. first, let the coroner do is report, then see where they stood. rocky and his wife, were eager to take even a story to the cops. everyone though hope diaz was blamed. >> i remember feeling suspicious after that phone call. feeling like we need to do something with this information. >> in the dark of the parking lot, they made a compromise. rocky would call the coroner the next day, asking for a thorough and full examination of the body. there wouldn't be any mention of the suspicion. the >> coroner is going to find out how she died. this was a matter of two, three days. the corner had come back and said, this is what happened.

>> and that's what everybody wanted. they were desperate to know what had happened to rosy. the two car accident that she was in, had been a minor fender bender. there appear to be no serious trauma to rosie's body. when the next day, the coroner performed an autopsy. unwelcome news reach the family quickly. cause of death, unknown. more tests would be needed. the way it would only add more stress to an already stressful situation between the two brothers. their brother -- parents felt. attention >> they were going at each other. and i couldn't understand. it >> you can see? it >> i could see. it they were arguing, and arguing, i'm telling morocco, you need to talk. >> but, how long could the brother excuse their secret from the rest of the family? >> coming up, especially when somebody else was also growing

suspicious. >> as soon as i got off the, phone i said i think she killed him. when dateline continues.

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car accident. two weeks later, her family was still awaiting the coroner's -- that's when this woman, on her own, decided to get involved. and, it's that involvement that

would later prove valuable to the police. >> i didn't want to be the nosy neighbor. gladys kravitz of the neighborhood, coming up with these convoluted ideas. christine was a nurse that worked with both -- she hadn't seen much of easier them in the past five years. by coincidence, christine lived right next door to -- and even told her about that last phone call. about rocko yaz giving her a calcium capsule. >> it was odd to me, just before leaving to a movie, in the afternoon, in a hurry, that was so necessary that given the pill. as soon as i got off the phone with eva, i looked at my husband and said i think that he killed. or >> that instant? >> immediately. >> so, going simply on a gut instinct, that something wasn't right. unknown to rosie's brother's, christine called the authorities. >> but if you were wrong -- >> where could they take it, if i was wrong.

no harm, no foul. they could politely tell me that i was wrong. thank you for your help, and i would go away. >> christine's urgent request to check yaz out, made it to the desk of this detective. of the highland heights ohio deliberately swarm it was already investigating the accident. >> i never met christine, i don't know if she had ax to grind, but whatever reason she didn't have to not care for, him was not valid. i wasn't approaching him as a suspect, or even thinking that this guy's murder. >> still, the detective had some facts didn't add up. 38 year old woman, in good health, suddenly dead in the fender bender. what's more, the coroner couldn't give him a cause of death. at minimum, he had to find out more about those calcium capsules that christine had told him about. the detective called rosie's husband, he agreed to come down to the police station. that interview was recorded on an audiotape. the detective questioned doctor about the calcium capital.

>> and i thought about this, as well. my mom had this older woman over and they were talking about osteoporosis and whatnot. -- that we should probably, you know, she was over 35, she should probably start taking calcium supplements. >> so she's not under the care of any specialists or anything? she didn't have any health problems? >> no. >> was she experiencing an unusual stress recently? >> no, life was good. >> did you have any stressors in your marriage? >> no, our marriage was fun. >> what's your impressions shun of this doctor? >> well, he's clearly a smart individual. very low-key. >> are the calcium pills in the prescription vitamin still at home? >> yes. >> would you mind if i followed you back to your home and collected those? >> no. >> that would be great? >> remember, rosie and yeah as we're trying to have another child, and she was prescribed prenatal vitamins.

detective mckee wanted all the pills rosie was taking gathered up for testing, including the calcium capsules. the interview over, the detective followed yeah's home. >> we enter the home, there was a female seated at the kitchen counter, on a stool. she was margarita montana. as >> margarita was the daytime 90. yeah has had hired her to care for the kids. he also hired another woman to be the nighttime. 90 at the time, the detective thought nothing of margarita, though that would change. for now, he was there only to get the pills. >> before he retrieve the pills, he asked me, have you found the cause of death for my wife? i said no. he we ship in the cabinet, retrieve the pills -- but before he handed them to me, he says why do you want these? my response was, i just want to cover all the bases. >> the next day, yaz as rosy

sister to watch his kids, overnight. then, in the middle of the night, she got a urgent call from him. >> four in the morning, he left me a voice mail saying that, his friends brother was in a bad car accident, and didn't think he was going to make it, so he was going to go to north carolina. >> the friend's brother, was apparently in bad shape. yeah is as the dipuccio family to watch his children. on monday, when the doctor was to return, came a bombshell that nobody could've imagined. rosie's brother got a call from his wife. >> julie called and said, nobody can find yaz i said what do you mean? >> they found his friend, but nobody can find him. how is your brother? he said, we are talking about -- because your brothers been a really bad oxidant, he said i haven't seen yet as -- he has been here all weekend. >> dominic went to rosie end yaz house, discovering something on the kitchen counter. it was an envelope that had

been opened -- it was an envelope, with a passport. i said, he's gone. >> but, could this father have really left behind his children. children who just lost their mother three weeks before. the pooch eo's did have questions. what killed rosy? and why did yaz disappear? >> coming up, the autopsy comes in, along with the stunning revelation about those calcium pills. >> what were they filled with? >> when dateline continues. continues

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then, headed down to yaz, and had his own investigation. >> i spent a week at that house, playing detective. we were trying to throw it happened. >> what does it possibly sell? you >> rosie died on the thursday, less than 24 hours after he sends a blast email to his friend saying, just wanted to let you know that rosie died yesterday, she will be missed. >> that's it? >> yeah, that was email. that was his last email. >> to credit card transactions, dominic eventually learned, yaz had bought a plane ticket. final destination, cypress. the island in the mediterranean. dominic knew it was time to tell the entire family everything. he and his brother iraqi had been keeping back. about the conversation that's sister had with evil, just before she died. her story about rosy feeling sick. are you the family say -- yeah has killed rosy?

>> some of us are, it took me a while. it really took me awhile. >> suddenly, dominic and his wife's family had grown, caring not only for their four children, but now rosie's children as well. not a mother, not a father we, don't even know to tell them. how do you answer these questions? >> then came, even more devastating news. about four weeks after rosie's death, test results were in for the calcium pills that police took from gases home. >> there were suspicions -- nailed it. >> where are they filled? with >> potassium cyanide. >> cyanide. a lethal poison. nine pills were in the bottle that yaz had turned over to police. it's from that same bottle, that rosy got a pill. sure enough, there was enough cyanide in each pill to kill a person within minutes. rosie's death, was a homicide. but how could the man that the

dipuccio love so much, the son-in-law that had a near perfect marriage, have killed her? nonetheless, doctor yazeed essa was a murder suspect, an international fugitive. local police called in the fbi. >> initially, he fled from cleveland to cypress, and then eventually, he also came to formation from various sources, that he had traveled to beirut, lebanon. a season the fbi man hunter -- the agent had a major problem. yaz was untouchable in lebanon. because, that country doesn't have an extradition treatment with the u.s.. so, rosie's husband, was living freely in beirut. the fbi knew it, and there was nothing they could do. even if we have eyes on the ground, you can say just leave his apartment -- he went home, you can move in and serve papers on him? >> right. >> back in the u.s., rosie's

family desperately try to get yaz to turn himself in. they held news conferences. >> we're making a plea to yazeed, if he is watching, to come back to cleveland an answer to the charges. >> by then, the doctor had officially been charged with aggravated murder,. it appeared, he had no intention of coming back. officials would later learn, that diaz took on a new identity. more risk leafy. he was a single, good-looking guy, always up for a party. cnn wedding. months went by, than a year. did you ever get the feeling that he was slumping his nose at you? >> yeah, i think so. >> and what you have to do is lure him off the security of his home base, where he safe in beirut? >> we hope at some point, he leads the country. >> in october 2006, a year and a half after rosie's death, her mom and dad got a phone call from the local police chief. >> he said, are you sitting

down? he says, i have big news for you. he said, we got. >> he yaz had finally slipped up. he left the security of lebanon. the fbi was aware that he was going to be on a flight to cypress. how they knew, they won't say. police were waiting for the doctor when he got off the plane. and, in cypress, unlike lebanon, a person can be extradited to the u.s.. but, yaz would fight every inch of the way to avoid facing charges, in ohio. >> that's our. guy >> it wasn't until january of 2009, that yazeed essa, the man in this grainy footage, was brought back to the united states. detective mckee, highland heights ohio officer, who first started investigating the death, four years before, was waiting for him. >> we put him in the back seat of a car and i didn't say a word to. him >> you can say, remember me? >> i think he did. i don't think i had to say it. >> one question no one had yet

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and pulled the sheet down. and she was naked underneath, and he exposed her breasts. and he tried to get the necklace off, and he just kind of got it off, and he just treated her very disrespectfully. and i remember thinking, why is he doing that? why is he treating her like that? that's his wife. >> if the prosecution had an indispensable star witness, it'll be this woman taking the stand. even macgregor had been the friend on the phone with rosy, just moments before her car accident in death. only if i can point to him -- the cyanide laced capsule, that rosie had taken. she had taken a calcium pale right before she left the house. she didn't really want to take it, and she said that she was rushing out the door, and he said here, take it, take a

calcium. and now i don't know if it's making me sick. >> the jury would get a lesson in poisoning, the court was told that cyanide isn't something you buy over the counter. the little stuff, according to this poison expert, is available only a mouse click away online. >> there is a study done where they actually looked at ebay. there is two times when it came up, that you can buy on ebay site, cyanide. and it turns to be a snap to shake up the calcium in the capsule, and replaced with cyanide. >> you can just take a pen cap, and you can scoop it with that, and pour it right in. >> that may have been the killers methodology. but in the big picture, the most damning factor against diaz, because his decision to flee. but an innocent father of left his two children behind, just weeks after their mother had died. for the story, the courtroom was taken to the middle east, to account for yaz missing months in lebanon. this man, we jamal --

justified abdullah helped yaz live off the land, with a new identity. >> i got a call from my brother in law but there was somebody coming over to take care of him. >> the brother of jamal the fixer, hadn't known his family back in the states. jamal testified that he put him up in a borrowed passport, and got him a new name, more risk l.e.d.. >> as he got to know the american doctor better, a stunning story about rosy spelled out. >> he told me the story, that is why fires living at home, he told me he ground the cyanide, refill the pills, and gave her two pills. down the street, she had a car accident and she tied. >> a severe blow for the accused. a second hand account of a confession from yaz. and another right witness was

about to deliver an even more dramatic round how punch. >> we fraud isa took the stand as a prosecution witness. >> i asked him if he was responsible for her death, and he said yes. >> when you found out that information, what did you say to your brother? >> i told him -- bleep. >> why did you say that? >> because he took rosie's life. and i loved her. it just ruined his whole family. >> it was crippling testimony. once, an inseparable blood friend, hard given yards and evidentiary kills shot. nonetheless, there were still core problems in the prosecutions overall case. it was entirely circumstantial, and seemed to beg for a motive. why would the doctor do it? prosecutors answered by arguing that yaz the family man, wasn't really when you took a closer look. it turned out, he had a bunch

of women on the side. he was a doctor with a first degree cheating heart. >> every wednesday night husband with his girlfriend, that his mistress in her apartment. >> girlfriends, mistresses, sex partners, lots of them. jurors were even shown photos photos of it in a way bedroom. >> yeah, that was a place where he would use the apartment over there from time to time to bring his lady friends. >> good afternoon. >> and one of those lovers had been margarita, the daytime nanny. this is the woman in the detective sought sitting in his kitchen, when they first went to collect the calcium cap plates. it terms that margarita had a long term sexual affair, a affair that rosemary evidently had no idea about. >> in 2001 we began our sexual relationship. >> why did you become involved with the defendant when you are married? >> me and my husband were having problems, and i thought

we are going to get a divorce. >> so this began an affair with the defendant? >> on occasion. it wasn't a love affair or anything. >> margarita described it as a friends of benefit type relationship with yaz, purely sex. >> but the prosecution asserted that he had an even deeper more complicated relationship with michelle, madeleine e, she was the so-called nighttime 90. she was also someone who prosecutors say fell in love with a doctor, and he with her. >> to make the point, jurors were shown a camisole like this one. an intimate valentine's day gift from yaz to michelle. just two weeks before rosa's death. a representative of the company that ship the 90, read the card it was enclosed. >> next valentine's day will be all are as, i love you with all of my big s. >> he was indicating to his paramour that next year is

going to be all ours. it's kind of a foreshadowing of, he won't be around this year. >> the nighttime 90 was called to the stand. >> i do romantic relationship with him. >> michel testified that she was a nurse who met yaz on the job. she asked for and received a court order to obscure her image while testifying. >> he was telling me that he was so unhappy in his marriage, and i was a love of his life, and i was this dream come true. and he was going to leave her, so that our relationship can continue. >> she's pushing back saying, no, i can't be with a married man. and he can't make take no for an answer. and that's his motivation. that's what puts him on this path. >> a path the prosecution argued led directly to murder. the one time he shared with the court his supposed true feelings for his wife, rosie. >> he wasn't in love with her, according to what he told me. and he was in love with me. he would say she was a good person but she was cold. he would call her amanda.

>> rosie's family, taking in the testimony, were devastated by the mistress's recollections. >> the way he humiliated her, and on top of everything that he had done to her, to belittle her, or to make fun, or to mock her, with his mistress. it's just sick. >> hi, your honor, this time the state of ohio would rest its case. >> the defense were about to rise and offer a completely different theory of the crime. in fact, the jury had already met the true killer in court, and it wasn't yaz. >> coming up. questions about those cyanide filled pills. >> if he successfully killed his wife with them, why did he go along with this stuff? >> when dateline continues. is stuff >> when dateline continues >> when dateline continues

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rosie had with yaz. >> our mandate is to do the best job that we can, and to bring home that win. bring home that not win. >> the defense for yaz essa. sure, he had lots of women on the side, and he got away with it. so, why did he need to kill his wife? >> his two defense lawyers, mark mary and steve bradley, told the jury straight out.

the defense and was never gonna be the husband of the year. >> it was essa, regularly, always, maintained numerous sexual relationships with other women. but, they insisted, a cheater doesn't necessarily make a murderer. especially a doctor who is planning a bigger family. >> yazeed essa did not commit this crime. he did not intentionally poison the mother of his two young children. the woman with whom he was actively trying to conceive a third child, and add to their family. something they both wanted. >> if he were the heartless philanderer portrayed by the prosecution, then how come rosie's family liked him so much. >> did she have a good life? >> yes. >> it appeared that they had a pretty solid marriage. yes? >> yes. >> the marriage, to their friends, and their family, is a

lovable viable marriage. >> by all accounts, that a great marriage. >> the prosecution theorized that he killed rosy three with his mistress name michelle. the defense's response was, michelle was just another take a number girlfriend. >> we shall meant nothing. >> added up, argued the defense, and you have a respected doctor with no money worries, i nice family, and as many girlfriends on the side that he could juggle. bottom line, he had no reason to kill rosy. >> there is no reason for him to have separated his children from their mother and their father. to do something as a traumatic and extreme as poisoning your wife, requires some strong motive, and it wasn't present here. >> then there was the way he behaved early on. would a guilty man have turned over to the police that bottle of calcium capsules, if he knew full well that the lab with find cyanide nine in them.

>> if he is contaminated these cap lights, and he successfully killed his wife with them. why, in the name of oh things we know from cal television shows, would you hold on to the stuff? >> precisely. >> the fence went after the police for sloppy handing a laying of evidence. the detective we would probably capsules into his bare hands after collecting. >> are you telling us that you made a mistake? >> in hindsight, yes. >> the forensic expert who didn't check for prince. >> the pill bottle itself would have been conducive to leaving rich detail, correct? >> yes. >> to be clear, then. nobody ever made that. request >> no sir. >> there was a catastrophe in terms of forensics here. >> and even though the court had learned how easy it was to obtain cyanide, there is no evidence presented that yaz had actually done that. still, the start contract was yaz essa decision to leave the country. how can that be anything other than the action of a guilty man?

>> the defenceman it this way. yaz early on i talked to a lawyer who advised him he may be facing the death toll in guilty if charged with murder. >> yaz was led to believe that he could be charged with capital murder, and he freaked out. then of course, his lawyers had to defuse those explosive allegations from the lebanese fixer, and his own brother, that he said he did the poisoning. >> i asked if he was responsible for the, death he said yes. >> both witnesses had lined on the stand according to the defense, because each had cut a deal with the prosecution to leniency on charges they had faced. >> it was a proverbial get out of jail card. >> the brother, for instance, was looking at almost 12 years in prison for helping law on the land. he took a deal. >> he's got five kids, all under the age of 12 years, he employs 100 people, he's got a lovely wife, a beautiful home, and his world is about to

collapse on him. >> so was he well advised in terms of his own survival strategy, forcing for us to supper. >> from all the fixer had been a fugitive wanted by the united states. >> just listen to my question. listen sir. listen to my question. >> the more he talked, the better off we felt we were. >> that guy who is trying to cut a deal. >> precisely. >> so if yaz you essa didn't do it, who did? >> the jury had already met her, offered the defense. they offered up margarita as the true killer. >> she is one of the women that yazeed were detained a long term, ongoing, sexual relationship. >> margarita had a motive for one in rosy out of the picture, argued the defense. she and yaz had kept their sexual relationship going even after both that married. and, don't believe this portrait of her as a casual

friends of benefit lover, claimed the defense. >> margarita, very much, wanted to marry him. >> they claimed marguerita was so obsessed with the as. they claimed she scheduled her own wedding on the same day. >> are you telling us it's an absolute coincidence that you selected the same wedding day as essa, is that we are telling us? >> absolutely. >> weird marguerita for yaz's brother, and had access to yaz 's house. did she sneak over there wants to play cyanide in the capsule, so she'd have yaz for herself. >> the police did very little's who eliminator her as a suspect. >> despite that assertion, they dismissed her as a suspect. she emphatically denied having anything to do with roses death. but by introducing the girlfriend theory, had the defense raised enough reasonable doubt?

>> the defense will respectfully rest. >> after a seven-week trial, over 60 witnesses, the case was concluded. now, it was up to the jurors. they deliberated for three days, and announced they had reached a verdict. >> nice deep breath. >> i couldn't stop shaking. i got exactly the same way i did the day rosie died. >> the lawyers, the families on both sides, for some into the courtroom for the reading of the verdicts by judge dina caliber easy. >> we the jury, being duly sworn, do you find the defendant yazeed essa of murder. we guilty, it was almost over. at sentencing, rosie's -- son and brother. >> we lost our rosy for no reason. the only thing i'm hoping that, from now on, maybe --

less nice to my wife cries herself to sleep. >> i challenge him to find encouraged today to admit wedding did. to write the apology to my mother and my father and sister, and wife, and brother. are you man enough? are you? it's your last chance to say you're sorry. right here, right now. >> yes kept his silence. >> i've sentence you to life in prison. >> the judge sentenced the doctor to the maximum. >> all along, the detectives, the prosecutors, had wondered about the ifs. if rosie hadn't called even on the way to the movies, if rosie had lost control of her suv on the freeway, and not a local street. >> hadn't been a high-speed impact on the highway the corner and the pathology is probably wouldn't have looked any more than some blood for trauma, in a way it could've

been a perfect shot crime. >> but he hadn't plotted the perfect crime, as the jury saw. he killed, he ran, he was caught by tenacious law made. he will be eligible for parole after serving 20 years. r paro le after that's all for this editid dateline, i'm natalie morales, thank you for watching. , i'm natalie morales, thank you for watching i'm craig melvin, and i'm natalie morales. and this is dateline. >> lead is in a very good anniversary gift. a fatal gunshot just hours after celebrating 16 years of marriage to her police officer husband. >> she told him, she may have tried to clean my gun, and it may have accidentally went off. >> police were suspicious. the victim's own mother wasn't. >> she was